A People’s Budget for Peace: How would you spend £20billion of public money in the next 5 years?

Bruce Kent (CND)
Judith Robertson (Oxfam)
Matt Smith (UNISON)
Dave Gibb (music) plus others

Saturday 25th October, 12 noon, George Square, Glasgow

Organised by;

Scotland’s for Peace

Sponsors include;

STUC, Scottish CND, Stop the War, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, UNISON, Oxfam, Scottish Islamic Foundation, Justice and Peace Scotland, The Church of Scotland

Climate Change Demonstration – 6th December

On Saturday 6th December 2008 there will be a Global Day of Action on Climate Change with demonstrations in 90 countries including Scotland. The demonstrations are intended to coincide with the United Nations Climate Talks(COP13/MOP3) in Poznan, Poland, December 1st to 12th 2008.

The 'Call to Action' for these demonstrations and related events is as follows:

“We demand that world leaders take the urgent and resolute action that is needed to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate, so that the entire world can move as rapidly as possible to a stronger emissions reductions treaty which is both equitable and effective in minimising dangerous climate change.

We demand that the long-industrialised countries that have emitted most greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere take responsibility for climate change mitigation by immediately reducing their own emissions as well as investing in a clean energy revolution in the developing world. Developed countries must take their fair share of the responsibility to pay for the adaptive measures that have to be taken, especially by low-emitting countries with limited economic resources.

Climate change will hit the poorest first and hardest. All who have the economic means to act, must therefore urgently and decisively do so.”

We feel that there is an overwhelming need to create a groundswell of global opinion to push for the urgent and radical action on climate change, without which we risk a global catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.